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Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships
| Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships |
| Autore | O'Brien Karen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Collana | Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft and sex
Social history in literature |
| ISBN |
9783031440458
3031440455 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- 1 The Social Context of Cursing and the Cultural Politics of Speech -- Charting the Growth of Interpersonal Dispute Legislation -- Godly Discipline and Female Repression -- Silencing Women: Censoring Female Speech and Conduct -- Why Northwest England Matters: The Importance of Context in Understanding Female Speech Infringement Laws -- Societal Dynamics in the Northwest: Examining Government, Politics, and Conflict -- Government and Politics -- The Significance of Depositions, Petitions, and Letters in Historical Research -- The Policing of Women's Language and Behaviour: Increased Control and Restrictions -- Notes -- 2 Cursing in Early Modern Townships -- Challenging Patriarchy: Women's Verbal Transgressions and Acts of Agency -- Cursing and Customary Knowledge in Social and Historical Context -- The Art of Verbal Healing: Rituals and Practices -- Traditional Wisdom and Healing Practices -- The Use of Herbal Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Macer's Herbal -- Healing Women's Medical Conditions: Macer's Popular Herbs and Plants -- Cursing and Banning -- Notes -- 3 Spoken Transgression and the Courts -- Punishing Female Speech and Conduct -- Defying the Law: Voices of Agitation in Manorial Court, Portmoot, and Liverpool Town Books -- Casting Spells and Charms: Elizabeth Crackelow and Margaret Linke's Cunning Craft -- Women and Cursing: A Cultural Perspective -- Ellen Pemberton's Curse -- Transgressors: 'Knaves, Whores and Chyders'42 -- The Curse of Joane Elderson -- Unravelling the Tangle of Curses, Grief, and Petitions from 1630 to 1640 -- Notes -- 4 The Interplay of Curses, Social Crisis, and Economic Instability -- Mortality Crisis and Social Structure in Lancashire and Cheshire -- Nantwich Township: Turmoil and Discord -- 'All These Late Warres'22 -- Widows, Orphans, 'Maymed' [sic] Soldiers.
Poverty and Mortality -- Infant Mortality -- The Turbulent Decade of 1660-1670: A Chronicle of Loss, Hardship, and Curses -- Female Spoken Transgressions and Sexual Activity -- The Curse of Anne Knutsford -- A 'Public Bawd' -- 'Husht, Negative and Averse' -- The Curse -- 'Rivealing the Sicrettes of Women' -- 'Rivealing the Sicrettes': Measures and Countermeasures -- The 'Sicrettes' of the People of Nantwich: Bastards and Paramours -- Bastardy and Richard Walthall's Activities -- 'A Powiful and Ready-Handed Woman': The Vindication of Anne Knutsford, March 1663 -- Notes -- 5 Contextualising Customary Knowledge, Mystical Healing, and Cursing -- Beyond Medicine: Magical Healing, Love Magic, and Spells in Treating Disease -- Cunning Women and Interpersonal Relationships -- The Cultural Significance of Cursing: An Examination of Popular Beliefs -- Sudden Waves of Illness: 'Your Petitioners Humbly Prayeth' -- 'Blesser' and 'Cunning Woman' Mary Shaw -- Petitions and 'Strange and Sudden Diseases' -- Starving and Homeless: 'Your Petitioner Cripell Almost Starved for Want of a Habitation' -- Everyday Remedies for Household Healing -- Remedy, Ritual, and Herbal Medicine: Eliza Cholmondeley's Insight into Traditional Healing Practices -- Unveiling Women's Emotional Struggles through Letters, Petitions, and Testimonies -- 'Throtled into Kindness': The Dark Realities of Interpersonal and Domestic Violence in Early Modern Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910768452403321 |
O'Brien Karen
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman
| Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman |
| Autore | Norman Will <1978-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54 |
| Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history in literature
Time in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-64379-0
0-203-10806-X 1-136-26436-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Nabokov in literary history -- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse -- Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance -- Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister -- Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust -- Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov -- Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461947603321 |
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Norman Will <1978-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman
| Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman |
| Autore | Norman Will <1978-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54 |
| Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history in literature
Time in literature |
| ISBN |
1-283-64379-0
0-203-10806-X 1-136-26436-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Nabokov in literary history -- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse -- Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance -- Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister -- Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust -- Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov -- Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785989503321 |
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Norman Will <1978-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman
| Nabokov, history and the texture of time / / Will Norman |
| Autore | Norman Will <1978-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54 |
| Collana | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history in literature
Time in literature |
| ISBN |
1-283-64379-0
0-203-10806-X 1-136-26436-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Nabokov in literary history -- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and the modernist impasse -- Nabokov, Benjamin and historical resistance -- Totalitarian time: the struggle for autonomy in Bend Sinister -- Freudian time: Lolita, psychoanalysis and the Holocaust -- Swiss time: Cold War pastoral in late Nabokov -- Conclusion: reading Nabokov's dialectics. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825600603321 |
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Norman Will <1978-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
| Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
| Autore | Samuels Shirley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 |
| Disciplina | 813/.209 |
| Collana | Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century - United States
American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - United States National characteristics, American, in literature - History - United States Social history in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Social psychology in literature Literature and society Literature and history Books and reading English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
| ISBN | 1-4443-5435-3 |
| Classificazione | HT 1810 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910137712103321 |
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Samuels Shirley
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| [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
| Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
| Autore | Samuels Shirley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 |
| Disciplina | 813/.209 |
| Collana | Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century - United States
American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - United States National characteristics, American, in literature - History - United States Social history in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Social psychology in literature Literature and society Literature and history Books and reading English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
| ISBN | 1-4443-5435-3 |
| Classificazione | HT 1810 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829910403321 |
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Samuels Shirley
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| [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / / Shirley Samuels
| Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / / Shirley Samuels |
| Autore | Samuels Shirley |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.209 |
| Collana | Reading the novel |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Social history in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Social psychology in literature Literature and society - United States Literature and history - United States Books and reading - United States - History |
| ISBN | 1-118-78632-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction to the American Novel; 2 Historical Codes in Literary Analysis; 3 Women, Blood, and Contract; 4 Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales; 5 Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe; 6 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Afterword; Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827425203321 |
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Samuels Shirley
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| Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
| Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
| Autore | Samuels Shirley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 |
| Disciplina | 813/.209 |
| Collana | Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century - United States
American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - United States National characteristics, American, in literature - History - United States Social history in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Social psychology in literature Literature and society Literature and history Books and reading English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
| ISBN | 1-4443-5435-3 |
| Classificazione | HT 1810 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910876788903321 |
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Samuels Shirley
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| [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Revolution and the word : the rise of the novel in America / / Cathy N. Davidson
| Revolution and the word : the rise of the novel in America / / Cathy N. Davidson |
| Autore | Davidson Cathy N. <1949-> |
| Edizione | [Expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2004] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 810.9358 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Social history in literature American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism Literature and society - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-993052-X
0-19-028743-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467799103321 |
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Davidson Cathy N. <1949->
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2004] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Revolution and the word : the rise of the novel in America / / Cathy N. Davidson
| Revolution and the word : the rise of the novel in America / / Cathy N. Davidson |
| Autore | Davidson Cathy N. <1949-> |
| Edizione | [Expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2004] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 810.9358 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Social history in literature American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism Literature and society - United States |
| ISBN |
0-19-772589-9
0-19-993052-X 0-19-028743-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794878503321 |
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Davidson Cathy N. <1949->
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2004] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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